I heard a set of Snell's the other night, when down visiting a friend! I was darned impressed.
The R312's Cerwin Vega were a nice 3-way book shelf speaker system, and of course I have always like the studio JBL equipment (classic JBL and Cerwin Vega)
I would put Dahlquists and Canton on my list also.
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